Sentences with phrase «luxury commodity»

William Powhida's complex, text - heavy show imagines the natural extension of the current fascination with art as luxury commodity (hint: get rid of those pesky, rebellious artists so you can stabilize the asset).

«The Critics Panel» at» #class» never quite agreed about anything, starting with the event's premise: «Art is luxury commodity for the wealthy that limits access to ownership, understanding, and participation.»

A startling alternate to the way a space devoted to the exhibition of art is typically leveraged, Jeffrey Michael Austin's installation signals a moral dimension — one that appears to reject art's alignment with luxury commodity and embrace instead a utilitarian, even survivalist functionality.

The exhibition took place in the Rubell's 45,000 - square - foot gallery in Miami, formerly a D.E.A. confiscated - goods facility, a building that once contained millions of dollars» worth of an entirely different luxury commodity that caters to a similarly bourgeois clientele.

Related works articulate these divisions in the form of charts that merge influences from engravings by Northern Renaissance artists such as Frans Hogenberg with astute observations on the structures of art's radical visionary > luxury commodity continuum.

This is perhaps in part due to art's status under capitalism as a high - end, luxury commodity in which there is a vested market - led interest in maintaining twentieth - century hierarchies.

The exhibition offers a social commentary on Hong Kong's fascination with luxury commodities, and how those have come in part a medium for social identity.

A cast of characters, most of whom are individuals involved in some capacity in the local contemporary art scene, gaze over the garden, serving as a charged reminder of the complicity of our industry in the trade of luxury commodities and the circulation of unregulated capital.

If people really believe that exposure to nature is critical for being human, and not just a luxury commodity, then we need to fight for it.

Most of the six - figure guessers look as if they also might consider toothpaste to be a luxury commodity wildly out the reach of the average man, but it's still safe to say that the Elise exudes an air of exoticism far beyond its price.

I didn't own all of the Mega Man games for my NES — games were a luxury commodity during my formative years — but I owned the original Mega Man, and somehow 7 year old me was able to play through this game while «Old Me» struggles to clear the first part of Gutsman's stage.

No longer dust and dirt, this combustible sedimentary rock is repurposed as a signifier of socioeconomic labor, environmental peril, and luxury commodity.

«Even within my family, they were treated as a luxury commodity as well as a decorative object or even a form of investment.»

Watson suggests that, in a capitalist society, art is above all a luxury commodity, and art criticism is the packaging designed to create a taste for it.

Martens argues that each sculpture, made from chocolate as digital 3D prints, is a reflection on the European demand for luxury commodities and presents damning insight into the art market.